Portrait of Anna Belimbau

Portrait of Anna Belimbau, painted around 1900 and held at the Centro Matteucci in Viareggio, depicts a sitter associated with the Livorno cultural world from which Corcos himself came. The Belimbau family had connections to Livornese musical and intellectual life — Augusto Belimbau was a notable guitarist in the tradition of the instrument's Italian practitioners. The painting dates to Corcos's most confident mature decade, when his technique was fully formed and his reputation made him one of the most sought-after portraitists in Italy. The Centro Matteucci, dedicated to nineteenth and early twentieth-century Italian painting, is an appropriate home for this work, which epitomizes the refined academic portraiture of the period.

Corcos brings his standard mature technique to this portrait: carefully graduated tonal modelling of the face and hands, precise delineation of costume and hair, and a background that recedes into a neutral atmosphere without competing with the sitter. The overall palette likely tends toward warm amber tones, reflecting the interior lighting conventions of the period's portraiture.